How do you guys feel about SoulsBorne?
The first game, in my opinion, is the best (DkS1). I'm trying to get every chan's opinions on the series. /vg/ seems conflicted, and you're my second chan I'm asking. I plan on going to the infinitychan and asking there.
Thanks boys.

Ignoring Demon's Souls but including Bloodborne?
Bloodborne is a completely different game, the playstyle is exclusively aggressive, whereas the actual souls games are great because its a fighting game where you can really control the flow of battle if you have enough skill, you can sit in combat with bosses trading blows or avoiding hitting each other all together. The souls games are my favorite games of their genre, couldn't get very far into bloodborne, it takes the unique gameplay style of souls and throws it out the window in favor of visual aesthetic qualities and a more typical fast-paced gameplay style

I loved Demon Souls, It really felt like you were a human fighting demons, for the first time in my gaming life I felt respect for mobs, for the first time I was not "the chosen one" who could approach a giant and get hit 30 times using 3 potions and it was done. I got to love annoying levels like the tower of Latria or the poison/rot level where maiden astrea is just for the lore, I wanted to get all the items to know more about the story, and I could play it again and again using different builds. Also, every encounter with a boss was epic for the first time.

I didn't like Dark Souls that much, I just played it because it was kinda playing different levels, the gameplay was exactly the same (I expected improvements since it was a new game), it had little to no lore, mobs were there without a reason, I could go on and on but I just have to say that most of Dark Souls lore is not a good story but good fan based theories of a plot with a hole as big as my failure in life. Unlike Demon Souls it was all a straight line, you didn't get to choose where to start or where to go, beat a boss, go straight forward and so on, it felt linear to me and most bosses were bad copies from Demon Souls and felt a lot easier. I was really disappointed.

I liked Dark souls 2, felt a great improvement in the perfectpath that was destroyed in DS1 and the gameplay mechanics.People hate DS2 saying it was a bad copy from the bosses to the weapons, but it was the same with demon and dark souls, they just didn't know because they didn't play the first game, they were mad because it was "unfair", for me it was not, I was happy with the game being as hard as the first one, my only disappointment was that lore was again ignored and the game didn't even had connection with DS1, as the devs said "all dark souls games are placed in different universes"

Loved Bloodborne, the gameplay, the lore, the perfectpath, the ambiance, how hard it was and how it forced you to be aggressive, never thought a was going to find a game as hard and lore immersive as Demon Souls, I think is my favorite game from all time. I also loved how you could go on and on because of the chalice dungeons and find a perfect build for PvP, I think it has my favorite PvP from them all.

I Really liked DS3, the game was improved in every single aspect, because of the DS2 hate they brought new bosses and weapons, I liked the lore from the main game and dlc, this one I played with friends, I always did but this time we were summoning each other instead of taking turns so I feel I can't talk fairly about the difficulty. From all the Dark Souls I think it was the best one and more original.

TL;DR: I loved Demon souls and Bloodborne because of ambiance lore and gameplay, think Dark souls 1,2 & 3 are very good games but I keep liking Demon souls more and think Bloodborne is Hidetaka's mag
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Hey there, Ever heard of Cheetahmen 2? If you haven't, here's a great review about it:
https://youtu.be/8a0imxwKZ_cIf you have then great. What do you think of the game? Complete fuckery isn't it? Why do you think they never finished the sequel though?

You should try The Surge. It's a *Souls kinda game that takes place in the future. Has a lot of metroid elements where you have to return to previous areas in order to progress. A neat mechanic in the game is that you have to target specific body parts of your enemies to do good damage and gain extra items.

Only downside is that it has a linear storyline. It's worth a NG+ playthrough for increased difficulty and a couple of added story elements.